The Battle of Tarawa was the opening campaign of the U.S. drive across the central Pacific during World War II.

Siwash the Duck during the Battle of Tarawa. (USMC photo) The Battle of Tarawa was 76 hours of pure death and destruction. In 1943, 18,000 United States Marines duked it out with more than 2,600 ...

On a remote Pacific sandbar, replete with the ravages of war, a small group of veterans, volunteers and archeologists are doing their best to keep the enduring promise of “no man left behind.” ...

From Washington Admiral Ernest J. King signaled: “To all hands concerned with the Marshall Islands operation: Well and smartly done. Carry on.” Said Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, commander of ...

The remains of 30 US Marines and Navy service members lost since a bloody WWII battle in the South Pacific have been found on remote Tarawa Atoll, an organization that recovers lost US service members ...

More than 20 American service members who were killed in a bloody World War II battle are finally back on U.S. soil – and are one step closer to getting the burials they rightfully deserve. An Air ...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – U.S. Marines with 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force commemorated the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa, at Camp ...

CINCINNATI – A Marine from Cincinnati who died during the Battle of Tarawa was accounted for in July, nearly 77 years after he was killed, according to the U.S. Department of Defense POW/MIA ...

I’ve long been an aficionado of World War II history, and a sucker for decennial anniversaries. So I didn’t want to let the 80th anniversary of the underappreciated Battle of Tarawa pass unremarked.

ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA9) — After 72 years buried under feet of crushed coral in an old shipyard, Private Robert Carter is finally home. RELATED: Marine awarded heroism medal for pulling comrade from ...

He enlisted at 28, died at 29 and never came home. But now Marine Corps Reserve Pfc. Frank L. Athon Jr. is returning to Cincinnati – nearly 80 years after his death in the Pacific in WWII. He was one ...